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• Harness the power of social networking by Gavin Skeels
  in Online Marketing, Web Design
  19 Jan 2012  | 0 Comments
  As a web design company, we've spent a substantial amount of time integrating our CMS with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+ so your website can harness the power of social networking. Whilst it's no secret that big business uses social media to it's advantage, nearly 40% of small...Read More

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• Website Redesign by Gavin Skeels
  in Web Design, Website Advice
  4 Jan 2012  | 0 Comments
  As a web development company, a large portion of the work we do is the redesigning and redevelopment of a business' existing website. There may be a number of reasons that you've arrived at to think about a website redesign, but generally they can be narrowed down to these key areas: 1.) Metrics...Read More

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• Stock photography: Tips to help find great photography for your Website Designer using istock (PART 1) by Katie Finnegan
  in Website Advice
  21 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  Professionally shot photographs and considered cropping, dramatically enhance the appearance of a website, therefore lifting both the credibility and quality of the company in the site visitor’s eyes. It’s for this reason I encourage my clients to organise a professional photo shoot...Read More

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• The Google Search Algorithm by Josh Khoddami
  in Search Engines
  19 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  Outlined below I have laid out the Google Algorithm in full. Ok great, hopefully that one line will show as the meta description of my article on Google and substantially increase the click though rate. You would be surprised at how many SEO companies in Sydney claim they have the figured out the...Read More

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• Top 15 tips for a successful online store - Part Two by Hannah Mason
  in Building a Website, Web Design, Website Advice
  16 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  8. Clear lines of contact - build credibility Gaining trust and building credibility quickly are an important part of online shopping. If people can see phone numbers, email addresses and/or a physical address they will feel more confident that you are a real business. Having your phone number...Read More

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• Utilising SEO in your Website Design Real-estate by Josh Khoddami
  in Online Marketing, Web Design, Website Advice
  14 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  Chances are if you are reading this blog you are a small or medium business owner looking for search engine marketing (SEM) advice. In this case this simple rule applies to you, if Google can read it, it can rank you for it, if it can’t, then it can’t. This simple concept has been a...Read More

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• Web Development - Spank those bots - Part 2 by Garry Viner
  in Building a Website, Website Advice, The Web Showroom
  12 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  Last time I talked about how a website development company should attempt to reduce the frequency of unwelcome bots crawling their sites, and explained how in our case we are using Project Honeypot to blacklist suspect IP addresses. So what does it mean for us to mark an IP address as blacklisted?...Read More

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• Search Engine Market Share by James Lawrence
  in Search Engines
  8 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  As an SEO and web design agency we are often asked about which search engines have significant market share in major territories around the world. I thought I would collate some of the data that we have come across recently, to provide a snapshot on the state of search engine market share across...Read More

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• Shopping Cart Abandonment: 13 Ways To Reduce E-Commerce Abandonment Rates by James Lawrence
  in Building a Website, Website Advice
  5 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  Shopping cart abandonment occurs when a website visitor arrives at an online store, adds goods to a shopping cart with the intention of purchasing and then fails to checkout for a particular reason(s). This posting looks at practical steps that a website owner can take to reduce the percentage of...Read More

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• Web Design: What do the big sites do really well? by David Lawrence
  in Web Design, Authors
  2 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  I want to make a distinction here between the work website designers are doing for big companies and the web design that is being done for the big and successful websites dominating their particular industries. Excuse me… but did your website designer have to make things so busy? In truth...Read More

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